Quotes About Fragile

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

a tiny, ailing, very silent child of two or three, with a face made simian by thinness.

Some blows fall too heavy upon those too fragile.

And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. (To Science)

Aveva comunque il fascino di certi tisici: lineamenti delicati, pelle trasparente, labbra sensuali e insieme beffarde.

the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

We actors have a big problem. We have a lot of insecurity and we are fragile. We surround ourselves with people who praise our ego and lie to us... till that moment you realise that these people are not helping you get ahead.

My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more than anything. They're tiny and fragile and impressionable - and someone else's! As much as I hate borrowing stuff, that is how much I hate holding other people's babies. It's too much responsibility.

I'd forgotten how tiny new babies are.

To be honest, my partner Natasha is my inspiration. She is who I reference when searching for my role. I don't emulate what she does, but her interpretation of Giselle is so fragile and sensitive and so tender. It constantly inspires me. And I feel like it's the other way around. We have a great rapport together.

House Republicans are flimsier than toilet paper, except toilet paper actually has use. They're so pathetic.

I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe.

Their friendship sometimes struck Frances as being like a piece of soap – like a piece of ancient kitchen soap that had got worn to the shape of her hand, but which had been dropped to the floor so many times it was never quite free of its bits of cinder.

She was like milk - too pale, too pure, too simple. She was made to be spoiled.

It's only the beginning of January, but some daffodils and snowdrops have made it through the earth and stand wetly in little rows by the path. The bus stop is depressing; there's a line of people looking as cold and fragile as the line of flowers [...]

This web of lies was growing so convoluted, so branching, and so delicate that a moth's fart might knock it to pieces—

I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.

we slept, if one might call such a condition by so strong a name—for it was a sleep set with a hair-trigger.

The soft-spoken words fell off the side of the bed, emptying to the floor like powder.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sandcastles, house of cards, that's where they begin.

The soft-spoken words fell off the side of the bed, emptying onto the floor like powder.

My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.